Cassandra...START!!!...we're WAY past that. They "started" doing exactly what you just outlined a LONG time ago...it has been their MO for five years now (and probably longer). As far as I'm concerned, they have no other operations to speak of. I, like you, don't want to just outright call them liars...they know in their hearts if they are or not...but I would say that they have played this game so long that EDIGspeak has taken on the same "truthfulness" as "governmentspeak" in 1984. If it serves the purposes of the company and its investors (NOT shareholders)...who are sitting pretty...it IS truth...whether it connects to reality in the REAL world or not...it DOES connect to the EDIGreality...all that goes on in the EDIGworld...of which this BB plays a major role.
Congrats to all the roleplayers here. Let the play continue...but I gotta wonder just what it will take for EDIG shareholders (the commoners) to realize they're in a play within a play...and that unfortunately, though they paid real money to watch the play...the play within the play has no real money.
jt